Category Archives: Movies

Untimely Movie Review: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Tom Garrett

I was eager to dive into the next film in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, because I hadn’t seen the movie in many years.  In fact, my first exposure to it was in a … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: Bullitt

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Tom Garrett

Bullitt, the next film in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection, is the perfect palate-cleanser after the fantastic but mystifying 2001: A Space Odyssey. Rather than exploring existential questions of humanity and our place in the universe, Bullitt is quite simply an action-packed … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Tom Garrett

For about 25 minutes, there’s not a single line of dialogue in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, Kubrick, using only a phenomenal, classical score (WHOOOO!) and striking, brutal, beautiful, and sometimes alarming visuals produces a remarkably well-told story. As a … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: Cool Hand Luke

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Tom Garrett

With my renewed, pandemic-commitment to reviewing the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection, I moved on to the next film in the collection, Cool Hand Luke. Like Doctor Zhivago and numerous other titles in the set, Cool Hand Luke is based on a book I’ve … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: Doctor Zhivago

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Tom Garrett

I thought there could be no better time to resume my on-again, off-again relationship with the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection than during a global pandemic. In fairness to me, the reason I hit pause after the most recent few … Continue reading →

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Timely Movie Review: The Rise of Skywalker

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Tom Garrett

*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD* “The dead speak!” The first line of The Rise of Skywalker‘s opening crawl was an immediate red flag. In Episode IX, the dead don’t just speak.  They give speeches. Much as I did with The Last Jedi, I made … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: How the West Was Won

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Tom Garrett

As part of my flagging recommitment to this blog, I’ve dusted off my Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection, which I purchased back in early 2014.  I fairly regularly provided reviews of the films in that collection, which I’ve gradually watched … Continue reading →

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Timely Movie Review: Avengers – Endgame

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Tom Garrett

The culmination of a 22-film franchise, Avengers: Endgame represents one of the most ambitious projects in filmmaking history—if not the most ambitious. Providing a thorough synopsis of a complex, multifaceted, three-hour film is both overly cumbersome and unnecessary for a review like this … Continue reading →

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Untimely Movie Review: Ben-Hur

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Tom Garrett

There’s a moment, about two hours into Ben-Hur, when Charlton Heston’s title character tells Esther “We stood here before,” to which she replies “a long while ago,” and Heston responds, “Four years ago,” at which point I replied, “Feels longer.” That’s the … Continue reading →

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Timely Movie Review: The Last Jedi

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Tom Garrett

I’m proud to say that I made it to The Last Jedi spoiler-free. But I did collect one bit of relevant information prior to seeing it.  I saw that the Rotten Tomatoes score was a strong 93%, with a robust sample size … Continue reading →

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